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Philip blue owl Hooser’s new work Tartuffenthrope! celebrates the city’s bicentennial the birth of French playwright Molière

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Researchers are looking for lost graves near the Shawnee Indian Mission

I worked at Schlitterbahn after the Verrückt accident. Here's how that went

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How the Bagnell Dam created the Lake of the Ozarks and reshaped southern Missouri forever

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In his new memoir, local activist Alvin Brooks reviews his decades of civil rights fights

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How a single from a Kansas City soul artist became a surprise hit in Europe

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In 1928, a Native American man from Kansas became the nation’s first vice president of color

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This small town Kansas photography shop develops aged film formats no other processor will touch

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Squirrels are not native to modern Kansas City—this is how they got here

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Two copies of the world's first Christmas card ever made are in Kansas City